On Dec 19, Karon Hylton's mother was arrested after confronting MPD cops at their 4D stationhouse for killing her son. This triggered an hours-long siege of the station by protesters ending in the release of Karon's mother. Threats to mace protesters and bike cops riding around to threaten a kettle failed to disperse protesters. In the end, MPD threw  in the towel.

There is still the matter of the demands of the protest, in particular that Ofc Sutton be fired. He is a known racist cop who has harassed Black residents of the Brightwood neighborhood for over a decade. In October he violated DC's "no chase" rule by chasing Karon Hylton to his death in a crash for nothing more than riding a rental scooter(the big kind) without a helmet. It took two years to get the cop who murdered Terrence Sterling fired, but Black Lives Matter never gave up until that killer cop was off the streets.

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